Body and Soul: Installment #5//Wondrous Words
Late one night (around midnight it was) I opened my Bible for some quick meditation before retiring for the night and I turned to Psalm 145. In the fifth verse of that psalm it reads “I will meditate on the glorious splendor of Your majesty And on Your wondrous works.” Then I saw the reference to the footnote at the bottom of the page(some Bibles use the margin).
It said that many early manuscripts translated that literally to read “They will meditate on the Words of Your wondrous works.” A good feeling came over me as I read these words and I knew it was the Holy Spirit and He wanted me to write what He was giving me and that is that His Words are even greater than His wondrous works. In fact the Bible says in Psalm 138:
Psalm 138:2I will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise thy name for thy lovingkindness and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name.
His wondrous words; words that sustain me, words that correct me, words that guide me in paths of righteousness, words like I found in Romans 13:14, “Put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ” and this is referring to the previous verse or statement which says “ Let us walk properly, as in the day; not in revelry and drunkenness, not in lewdness and lust, not in strife and envy.” Boy! What a wondrous word this is. I shall quote the next part in it’s entirety. “But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to fulfill it’s lusts. This is God’s wondrous words that is exalted even above His name and we had best pay attention. It is hard to imagine, yes hard to conceive or to comprehend anything that is above the name of our most high God and by the way, we call our God…Jesus!
He came down from heaven clothed in human flesh that He might taste death for every person living on this planet. And we are admonished to put on (as a garment to wear) the LORD Jesus Christ. You may remember some months back that Naida did a post on that subject. Now my intentions are certainly not to repeat her thoughts, although it was an excellent posting, BUT AT THE VERY LEAST, I hope that you will go in to the blog archives and reread her post.
However I do want to expand on these wondrous words. “Put on the Lord Jesus Christ”, and previous to that were these words I quoted about walking properly. Walk decently, one commentator said; let our deportment be decent, orderly, such as we shall not be ashamed in the eyes of the world and it goes on and lists what that means…no revelry and drunkenness, no lewdness and lust, not in strife and envy. It is interesting to note that strife and envy are listed right there with revelry, drunkenness, lewdness, lust…some people who have caused strife in churches through envy would be horrified at the thought of all these other things yet continue to cause strife through envy and think nothing of it. Our conduct is so important; what kind of a witness do I portray for Christ? The commentary says it this way…”let us put on decent garments”
Putting on the Lord Jesus Christ means receiving and believing the Gospel; It means having the mind of Christ; the ancient Jews used the phrase putting on the Shekinah, or divine majesty which signified that their soul was fit for glory, clothed with immortality.
To be clothed with a person is a Greek phrase which means to assume that persons interests, to imitate him, to be wholly on his side and it was taken from that of stage actors who when portraying a character would dress like them and imitate them in their spirit, words and actions. That is what it is like to put on Christ. It all starts when we are born again.
If I am displaying envy which causes strife, how can I put on the Lord Jesus Christ. His words are wondrous words And , oh yes I’m to make NO provision for the flesh,…to fulfill it’s lusts.
Late one night (around midnight it was) I opened my Bible for some quick meditation before retiring for the night and I turned to Psalm 145. In the fifth verse of that psalm it reads “I will meditate on the glorious splendor of Your majesty And on Your wondrous works.” Then I saw the reference to the footnote at the bottom of the page(some Bibles use the margin).
It said that many early manuscripts translated that literally to read “They will meditate on the Words of Your wondrous works.” A good feeling came over me as I read these words and I knew it was the Holy Spirit and He wanted me to write what He was giving me and that is that His Words are even greater than His wondrous works. In fact the Bible says in Psalm 138:
Psalm 138:2I will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise thy name for thy lovingkindness and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name.
His wondrous words; words that sustain me, words that correct me, words that guide me in paths of righteousness, words like I found in Romans 13:14, “Put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ” and this is referring to the previous verse or statement which says “ Let us walk properly, as in the day; not in revelry and drunkenness, not in lewdness and lust, not in strife and envy.” Boy! What a wondrous word this is. I shall quote the next part in it’s entirety. “But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to fulfill it’s lusts. This is God’s wondrous words that is exalted even above His name and we had best pay attention. It is hard to imagine, yes hard to conceive or to comprehend anything that is above the name of our most high God and by the way, we call our God…Jesus!
He came down from heaven clothed in human flesh that He might taste death for every person living on this planet. And we are admonished to put on (as a garment to wear) the LORD Jesus Christ. You may remember some months back that Naida did a post on that subject. Now my intentions are certainly not to repeat her thoughts, although it was an excellent posting, BUT AT THE VERY LEAST, I hope that you will go in to the blog archives and reread her post.
However I do want to expand on these wondrous words. “Put on the Lord Jesus Christ”, and previous to that were these words I quoted about walking properly. Walk decently, one commentator said; let our deportment be decent, orderly, such as we shall not be ashamed in the eyes of the world and it goes on and lists what that means…no revelry and drunkenness, no lewdness and lust, not in strife and envy. It is interesting to note that strife and envy are listed right there with revelry, drunkenness, lewdness, lust…some people who have caused strife in churches through envy would be horrified at the thought of all these other things yet continue to cause strife through envy and think nothing of it. Our conduct is so important; what kind of a witness do I portray for Christ? The commentary says it this way…”let us put on decent garments”
Putting on the Lord Jesus Christ means receiving and believing the Gospel; It means having the mind of Christ; the ancient Jews used the phrase putting on the Shekinah, or divine majesty which signified that their soul was fit for glory, clothed with immortality.
To be clothed with a person is a Greek phrase which means to assume that persons interests, to imitate him, to be wholly on his side and it was taken from that of stage actors who when portraying a character would dress like them and imitate them in their spirit, words and actions. That is what it is like to put on Christ. It all starts when we are born again.
If I am displaying envy which causes strife, how can I put on the Lord Jesus Christ. His words are wondrous words And , oh yes I’m to make NO provision for the flesh,…to fulfill it’s lusts.
posted by Randall | 5:31 a.m.
3 Comments:
Hi Randall
Once again you hit the nail right on the head. It is unfortunate but the same people that see so much sin in others,and do not hesitate to talk about it,can not see that they are sinning themself.
Their sin is not only hurting them,but the one's that they are talking about,and the one that will listen to it.
I think that if we all would start our day asking God to show his word in a new way today that each time we would get a new insight into how we should be acting towards other.
Jesus wants us to treat others as if they were Him. Lets try that !!!!
C.M.
As I read this blog I find myself very sad, when I first read it I thought how sad I must make the Lord, he loved you & I enough to die for us and this is how I repay him.
[GOD let me change]
Before I was saved ,one of my friends [BRAD] asked me a question; ,my reply was " I never hurt anyone in my life. "
I know how wrong I was back then and I know now, I do hurt people, its what I do, not a very nice guy am I? But that’s the way I am
[we all are ] here I go again judging you and that’s not allowed, but I think it is ok for me to judge me, when I look back I can see the harm I have brought to others [for me to be me ].You would think that now that I know this, it will never happen again, this is why I am sad [ it could and probably will ].....
and he still LOVES me.
Coffee
He takes us as we are ... but He doesn't expect us to stay that way. He told the woman at the well, "go and sin no more". He loved her and accepted her as she was but He did not leave any room for her to repeat the sin He had just pointed out.
We can take a lesson from that - as Coffee pointed out - He died for us and accepts us ... but ... He expects a change. "He made a change in the way I'm walkin, He made a change in the way I'm talking."
Thanks, again, my brother blogger, for holding up the mirror - can't turn away from it without seeing the need of change. Change me, O God,
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